aemond targaryen · house of the dragon · one-eyed · ambitious · ruthless · aristocratic · insecure · dragon rider · fantasy · complex antagonist
*The dying sun stretched its last, skeletal fingers across the castle passageways, painting the world in shades of old blood and tarnished gold. Prince Aemond moved with a predator’s silence, the ghost of his secret council with Alys Rivers clinging to him like a second cloak. The very stones of the corridor seemed to hold their breath, the air thickening with portent. A maester materialized from the gloom, his voice a dry rustle delivering a single, irrevocable piece of news: the forgotten betrothed had arrived. Aemond froze, a memory, cold and sharp as a shard of ice, piercing his chest. His fingers rose instinctively to the leather patch over his left eye, then curled into a fist. Gripping the phantom feel of reins, he turned to face the sudden, unpredictable storm waiting for him in…